Comment: The feeling that the Creator helps me seems to cancel my sense of “I.”

My Response: No, this is incorrect. Today you think you are a “macho” man: “What Creator? Why do I need Him? Am I supposed to ask Him for something?” A small child reasons this way. We are all small children, not you alone.

Men tend to have this. A man thinks: “How can it be that someone is stronger than me? I must reveal a force greater than me, one that decides everything, does everything with me, and puts everything into me?!” Women are different. They have a readiness for this, and therefore a woman is not obligated to perform the commandments or undergo such direct corrections as a man.

For men, everything proceeds from the point: “I will rule.” This is the entire force of the shattering, the whole essence of the desire to receive.

From this, we can understand what we must attain. I must come to joint action with the others on the path toward humility, on the path toward love. But this happens gradually: first, one annuls oneself, and then enters into connection with the Creator. Not in the sense that I immediately enter into contact with Him, saying, “Let us unite and be partners,” but in the sense that, through the process of development, a person feels how he annuls his “I” before the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘He Who Is Without Sons,’ in the Work?”

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Question: In Rabash’s article, “The Klipa [Shell/Peel] that Precedes the Fruit,” he speaks about receiving Kelim (vessels), whereas our greatest work should be in the realm of bestowal. How should we understand this?

Answer: Rabash’s article speaks about how to increase the receiving Kelim, and how they are given to us from above. After all, initially our receiving Kelim are inadequate even for receiving pleasures in the corporeal world, let alone in the spiritual world.

An ordinary person does not even have developed desires for corporeal pleasures. Are his desires rich and vivid? Does he really want to earn more money, become great and famous, enjoy food and sex, live in a palace? How many such people are there?

Why, as a rule, is a person satisfied with little? The desire to receive does not want to experience suffering, and therefore, according to a person’s capabilities, it does not allow him to desire more than he can attain.

If we continued this way, we would constantly descend lower and lower, because the desire to receive generally operates in such a way that I seek peace and quiet. The Creator wants to bring all of humanity to the goal, and for this we need Kelim of infinite capacity. But if there were no development from above, we would not develop at all.

We would increasingly enter a state of dormancy and lack of movement, until complete inactivity. It is only because we have Reshimot (informational records) from the entire path that the soul went through from above downward, and these Reshimot are within us and constantly awaken in order to be realized, that each time I desire new and different things: one thing, another, a third —“I want, I want, I want… .”

Therefore, if this is simply an ordinary person, and the surrounding light does not particularly influence him because he does nothing to draw it, then until the light begins to act upon him, the person simply develops “on his own.”

Nevertheless, look at the difference between the development of humanity before the twentieth century and throughout the twentieth century. What a difference in everything! New technologies, a new way of life, revolutions, everything imaginable. There were two world wars. Wait, you will see what else is going to happen now, in the twenty-first century. It would be better if we did not have to witness it.

And all of this is because of the Reshimot that compel and push a person forward. But for someone who has entered our path and begun to draw the surrounding light toward himself with greater force, the Reshimot are realized very quickly, not over 20 to 30 years, but within one or two days, and even less! It only seems to us that this cannot be so, but that is precisely how it is. It is a fact.

Look at what 2,000 years are compared with a single twentieth century! They amount to nothing. The same is true of our one day compared with another person’s 30 years of life. What does an ordinary person usually do throughout his life? Practically nothing. But what about us? How many nuances do you consciously work through in your perception of the spiritual?! You do not know. Your minute (or even less than that!), can be equivalent to someone else’s entire lifetime.

And now the question is how to accelerate this even further. We do not understand to what degree the spiritual is incomparable with the corporeal. If, over the course of 30 years, you work intensely so that one second becomes like a thousand years, then there is a possibility that you will complete this life well. Now do you understand how much greater the spiritual is than the corporeal? By an infinite number of times.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/26, Rabash, “The Klipa [Shell/Peel] that Precedes the Fruit”

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Question: What does “we will do and we will hear” mean?

Answer: “We will do” means performing actions above reason, and then “we will hear,” meaning we will receive correction, after which we will be able to hear in the Kelim of Bina what the Creator actually wants to tell us. But before performing the action, before creating the Kli, it is impossible to receive lights and understand what it is about.

You want to feel spirituality, to do something in spirituality, but you are told: You do not have the Kelim (vessels) for this. What does it mean that you do not have Kelim? You do not understand at all what spirituality is. It only seems to you that you want it. Spirituality is completely different from what you imagine it to be.

It is like saying that you want a glass of water, when in fact you want not ordinary water but Coca-Cola, only you do not know what it is actually called. We do not know what “for the sake of bestowal” means.

Spirituality means that there is no “me.” My “I” is completely annulled; it works with another person’s desire and serves only them. This is called spirituality. Do you want this?

Even if you try to imagine it to the extent that your degree allows, you will see that you do not really suffer from not having it, and a moment later you will abandon this thought and never return to it.

It is said: “We will do and we will hear.” Even if you do not yet want spirituality, but strive to attain it, first you need to undergo correction for the sake of bestowal. This is called an action: “We will do.”

Of course, it is not you who performs this action, but the Creator, yet you must make a certain effort, and in return you will receive something opposite to your egoistic desire. But not what you asked for, what you wanted and intended to receive. You could not even imagine that this is what you would receive.

But this does not mean that He is deceiving you. According to your Kelim and desires, you make efforts, wanting to swallow both this world and the future world. You want all of this, and suddenly He gives you something completely opposite; He erases all desires for both this world and the future world within you, and makes you completely different.

However, this does not mean that He is making some deceptive maneuver. It is simply that at the end of the path, you yourself want Him to correct you, as it is written: “And the children of Israel cried out.” For you no longer identify yourself with your desire to receive, but truly want Him to correct it.

You see that you have nothing else, but the point in the heart has grown so much against the background of the desire to receive that from it you can already judge your desire to receive, and truly want it to change.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘He Who Is Without Sons,’ in the Work?”

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Question: When studying Kabbalah, we look at the final goal, rather than at the middle of the process. If the final goal is a state in which I want to run away from myself and no longer think about myself since all my desires bring me suffering, then why, in the middle of the process, can I not choose such an environment that will “brainwash” me from morning until night?

Answer: Wonderful! Now you understand what the exodus from Egypt is. It is when you want to run away from yourself, from the land of Egypt, from Pharaoh, from suffering, from absolutely everything. This is no longer simply suffering, but real horror. You are ready to run away, and that’s it. This is the end of our development within the framework of the material world. From this state, it is already possible to emerge into spirituality.

How can you accelerate the path? You say: “Okay, now I am in the middle of my development in Egypt. I have gone through seven years of plenty and am beginning to enter the seven years of famine. It no longer seems pleasant and nice to me. I want to accelerate the development.” Please do! You are told that this is possible.

What does it mean to accelerate it? I means going through the same stages more quickly. But they are the same stages; you are not capable of jumping over even one of them. When we speak about shortening the path, we mean shortening it in time, not shortening the distance, not skipping degrees. The leap occurs in awareness, in the speed with which states are recognized.

They say that with the help of the group you can do this very quickly. Do it! You are given this opportunity. If this opportunity did not exist, if acceleration were impossible, you would not have been given this wisdom at all. Then development would proceed under the influence of forces from above, and that would be all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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